Gah!

I really don’t mean to go months without updating!

Work is good, book reviewing is good, life in general is good.  Trying very hard to not lose my shit over the economy or the election and mostly succeeding with occasional forays into asking friends if we can live in a cardboard box on their front lawn and contemplating getting a really nice sock to stuff our meager savings into.

Last Tuesday was me and Paul’s second wedding anniversary–it doesn’t seem like two years (or ten, for that matter, since we’ve been together since June 1998).  Sadly, we didn’t do anything to celebrate due to my feeling somewhat poorly, but we’ll figure something out.

I’ve been spending a lot of time fiddling around in Second Life lately.  I’m slowly learning how to build and my avatar is totally about the shopping (which is why I need to learn to build, so I can support her shopping habit).  Which is just bizarre, because I hate shopping in real life.  Here are two of Alix’s recent outfits:

I think there’s something wrong with me.  The first one was intended to be sort of an insane conglomeration of things–I adore that hat for some reason–and the second was my attempt at looking as trashy as possible.  I generally have a small squid trailing along behind me in-world, it was a gift from a friend and I think it’s really spiffy.

I have been doing a little bit of knitting and spinning–I’m planning on getting a lot of both done this weekend.  I really need to finish up the project I have on the small wheel and I have too many knitting projects going on.  I’d feel happier if I could finish those up and have a clean-ish slate going into fall/winter.  With the fall television season starting, I am spending more time away from the computer in the evenings (although the WoW expansion is out in a month), so I’m hoping to be able to prioritize that stuff.